I saw that! What a bummer! I just hoped we had a shot cause he was friends with Carter Bajoit and a Texas product, but oh well! We do have two talented high jumpers coming in but we need to develop them to get them at a scoring level. And aside from Lamara Distin, our high jump production and development. Bajoit has improved an inch over 2 years, Andress, 2 inches (and doesn't come close to that PR when it counts), Mason Corbin 2 inches, Jake Lamberth less than an inch… not great! At least Bajoit shows promise, but needs more consistency and hopefully can get past 7'3+
We don't even have many horizontal jumpers to study progress but Deborah Acquah has shown improvement in the jumps year after year, but no one else.
Pole Vault I think we got a gem in Volunteer Assistant Joe Sarra and we will have a talented group of men next year in Zach Davis, Landon Helms, Jack Mann, Caleb Murdock, and Michael Schmuhl
As for throwing, we have Bryce who may only have one more track season left, two great female javelin throwers, and 2 great mens javelin throwers who have been hurt. No discus throwers, no shot putters besides Bryce, no hammer throwers, no weight throwers…
If Pat Henry doesn't want to utilize the transfer portal as much as other programs do, then our high school recruits must be developed and must show progress each season. Lately, that's been an issue.